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Meet the Uzbek scientist pioneering genetic breakthroughs in cotton, wheat and global food security

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Video. Meet the Uzbek scientist pioneering genetic breakthroughs in cotton, wheat and global food security

Updated: 02/09/2025 - 15:13 GMT+2

In partnership with Agency of Information and Mass Communications of Uzbekistan

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Uzbek scientist and agriculture minister Ibrokhim Abdurakhmonov is reshaping global farming through groundbreaking genetic research.

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